Leadership Team

The PSGLC Leadership Team is a 100% volunteer group that meets once a month. Its members include:

Deedra Moats
Secretary

Deedra Moats is the executive director at The Gallery at Fort Collins located in colorful Colorado. Her career spans over 25 years in the health and human services industry providing residential support for a wide variety of people. 

She was born and raised in Texas and graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in psychology. (Hook ’em, horns!)

Deedra moved to Colorado in 2011 with her husband and two children. She enjoys spending her free time with her family discovering new hiking trails, visiting state parks, watching college sports and planning as many beach vacations as possible.

Recent empty nesters, Deedra and her husband have opened their home to four legged friends from near and far, having a steady stream of all type of dogs and puppies in their home for furry visits while their pet parents travel the world.

Deedra’s passion is helping people live their best lives in a comfortable and safe environment while also having fun!

Bill Rogers
Communications Manager

Bill arrived in Colorado, as a youngster, in 1962 when his family moved from Kansas and except for 2 years in Denver has always lived in the Loveland-Ft Collins region; over the years obtaining three degrees from Colorado State University- BA in Social Science, Master of Business Administration and Masters in Computer Information. During this time pursuing careers in Materials Management and IT Support, finally retiring to spend time with his wife and to help her with her Parkinson’s adventure.

Gail Frasier
Care Partner Breakout Leader

Frasier obtained a bachelor of science in mathematics from the University of South Florida. Her ambition was to work at the NASA’s Goddard Space Center in Maryland. Instead, her career was as a consultant in the life insurance business.

Her philosophy can be summed up, “Have you ever been on a walk in a park or on a hike in a forest and want to take that great feeling home with you? This has been a lifetime exercise for me. My love of nature, of being outside, noticing little things, can be seen in the details of my clay vessels and tiles …

“Natural changes and growth found in seed pods on the verge of bursting; tree bark surviving animal bites and weather; rushing water and crashing waves — these are my influences.”

Paul French
People with Parkinson’s (PwP) Ambassador
Treasurer

Paul was born and raised in Southern California. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from UCLA and a Master’s from Stanford.Settling in Silicon Valley, he worked for 15 years in high tech first as an engineer, then as a manager, doing integrated circuit design for computers. Paul moved to Fort Collins in 1996, where he continued his management career in IC design at Hewlett-Packard and Intel. He retired in 2016 as a Director of Engineering.

Paul was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2006. He worked for 10 more years. Upon retiring, Paul got more active in the Parkinson’s community. He started the HARDY (Highly Active, Recently Diagnosed, and Young onset) Parkinson’s Group that meets in the evening so that working PWP can attend. He joined the board of PAR,and the leadership team of the Parkinson’s Support Group in Larimer County. He has attended the Parkinson’s Policy meeting in Washington, D.C., and represented PAR at meetings of the Alliance of Independent Regional Parkinson’s Organization (AIRPO) meetings, in addition to helping organize and lead a Parkinson’s boxing class.

Mary Farrell
Parkinson’s Care Partner support group

Mary leads monthly meetups of our Care Partner group, which meets at a different time and place than our monthly support meeting. Check out our calendar for more specifics.

Carl Dierschow
Technology Coordinator

Carl is a professional business coach and compassionate care partner in Fort Collins. He grew up in Denver, graduated as an engineer from CU Boulder, then got married and has lived in northern Colorado ever since.

With his wife and two children, he worked a couple of years in Melbourne Australia – a truly transformational experience for the whole family.

Carl is active in the local small business community and leads a church handbell choir. He brings his software and Zoom expertise to PSGLC as a way for its members to learn and support each other.